This all makes me so sad. I REALLY hate what they are doing with Jaina, the single pillar of reason and peace and their flushing years of her character development down the drain to make her "Badass". Boo.

I ran my first LFR this weekend. First off, am I right in thinking that only the first half of Mogu'shan Vaults is open for LFR this week? Even after beating it, the second half wasn't available.

Second, the second boss is rough on raids. First and third are easymode, but that second guy puts a ton of stress on the healers when people don't do what they are supposed to. Plus the whole "one numbskull wiping the raid" issue in phase 3.

Third, I ran it a second time with my guildmates who had just qualified by ilvl and the game taunted me with a loot roll I couldn't have because I had already had a chance at loot from the boss. What the hell, Blizzard?

Oh, and I bit the bullet and bought a Grand Expedition Yak. First in our guild, I think, and I spent just over half my gold on it. Oh, well, what else was I saving it for?

I rocketed to the top of the damage meters on the third boss after I popped into the spirit realm for a while. Super fun! I hear that on normal mode, you have to be healed to full before the timer is up or you die. I'm looking forward to it.

Good. I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl. I easily capped Valor this week from all the daily quests and dungeon runs, with LFR as the icing; it'll be interesting to see how quickly I can cap it next week. I also have been getting way more Lesser Charms of Good Fortune than I can possibly turn in on a weekly basis.

I should hit Exalted with the Order of the Celestial Dragon tonight, so that'll be one set of daily quests I can skip from now on unless I want to farm achievements.

It doesn't matter. I've heard of people soloing TK, so three-manning it should be cake. The only things I can think of that might be problematic are running to the various platforms with Al'ar, dealing with Void Reaver's threat dump, and handling Kael'thas' AoE confusion attack.

You can equip the Legendary weapons, yes. It makes you quite a bit weaker with the loss of stats, but I suppose that can be seen as an acceptable tradeoff. And not all healers have threat dumps, FYI. In fact, none of them do. Many healers can temporarily reduce threat but it's by no means a permanent solution. However, I'm pretty sure it's possible to DPS down Void Reaver before you have to worry about it.

You deal with it by standing there and letting him hit you in the face with wet noodle or running around if you're feeling energetic. Seriously, just kill the guy.

The thing you need to be afraid of is Kael's mind control thing. The only heal class with ability to remove it is Shaman. Any tank class will do. Mage can't. So you grab the staff and activate it (thus saying goodbye to confusion), tank takes the knife and has to stab you (don't forget to reactivate the staff) and the healer with any melee attack when the control goes down. For everything else, just burn.

Oh, and the chick in the right wing can make you blow up your group so you kinda have to run away when you're the bomb. Or you know, laugh at the two corpses and kill her solo, whatever.

Clearly Fighteer forgot the existence of the shaman class, which has one threat dump (Wind Shear) and can talent another (Nature's Guardian). And before you ask, no, those are not temporary either. Shaman get all the cool toys.

As a Night Elf (Priest or Druid) I can also use Shadowmeld to temporarily drop threat. And there's the hilarious, never-gets-old joke about shifting to Cat Form and using Cower. (Did they finally drop Cower this xpack? I think so, at least for non-Ferals.)

On the other hand, with the new talents, a Druid healer can use Heart of the Wild to become a fairly impressive tank for a short period of time — this only works for those who've gotten to level 90, however.

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